[debbugs-tracker] bug#30836: closed ([PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license)

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> [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license
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> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:53:51 +0100
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> Elpa doesn't supply license information. The current importer pretends that
> everything is GPL3, which is not true. The importer should not invent license
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>  guix/import/elpa.scm | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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> diff --git a/guix/import/elpa.scm b/guix/import/elpa.scm
> index 7f76a13ad..cae10eb1c 100644
> --- a/guix/import/elpa.scm
> +++ b/guix/import/elpa.scm
> @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ type '<elpa-package>'."
>         (home-page ,(elpa-package-home-page pkg))
>         (synopsis ,(elpa-package-synopsis pkg))
>         (description ,(elpa-package-description pkg))
> -       (license license:gpl3+))))
> +       (license #f))))
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>  (define* (elpa->guix-package name #:optional (repo 'gnu))
>    "Fetch the package NAME from REPO and produce a Guix package S-expression."
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)
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> Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
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> >> Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:
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> >>> Elpa doesn't supply license information. The current importer pretends that
> >>> everything is GPL3, which is not true. The importer should not invent 
> >>> license
> >>> information.
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> >> Do you have examples of packages on ELPA that are not GPLv3+?  I don’t
> >> know if this is the case, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it had a policy
> >> of requiring GPLv3+ given that Emacs itself is GPLv3+.
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> > The ELPA importer is also used for MELPA, which has no license
> > requirements. The package that motivated this patch is Deft, which is
> > MIT-licensed:
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> >    https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
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> > If GNU ELPA guarantees GPL3, we could keep the old behavior for that
> > but use #f for MELPA and stable MELPA.
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> Good idea.  Commit 9bb1838c3f982dfb84ba24eb2f727cb39ee5805c does that.
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> Thanks!
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> Ludo’.
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